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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Orbile

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ORBI'LE. Varro, R. R. iii. 5. 15.; but the meaning, as well as the reading of the passage, is extremely doubtful. Some interpret the word to mean the felloe of a wheel; others the extreme end of the axle which enters the nave. Schneider would read orbis.

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